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# A cloak, a britzka and a girl in Gogol's works and the thousandfold fall in the rouble's value
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/chtoby-oshchutit-realnoe-padeniia-rublia-o-kotorom-tak-mnogo-govoriat-dostatochno-predstavit-tysiachekratnoe-ego-udeshevlenie-po-sravneniiu-s-gogolevskimi-vremenami/
- Published: 2018-08-09T10:03:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:52:48.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Observations, Mores, Humour

To feel the real fall of the rouble that everyone talks about, it is enough to imagine it a thousand times cheaper than in Gogol's day. A good lady's cloak cost 80 roubles ("Nevsky Prospekt"), a good britzka 4,000 roubles ("The Carriage"), and a good serf girl 120 roubles ("Dead Souls"). The poor little rouble has dwindled, and how